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The furies / Janet Hobhouse ; introduction by Daphne Merkin.
Van Pelt Library PS3558.O3369 F8 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hobhouse, Janet, 1948-1991.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women novelists--Fiction.
- Women novelists.
- Conflict of generations--Fiction.
- Conflict of generations.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Suicide victims--Fiction.
- Suicide victims.
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 293 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2004]
- Summary:
- The four generations of women described in Janet Hobhouse's autobiographical novel rival the Furies of Greek myth in their capacity to love and hate with a vengeance. At the heart of the story is a mother-daughter conflict that is at certain moments an innocent love affair between romantic co-conspirators and at others a bitter and deforming contest of wills. Hobhouse, who died of ovarian cancer while writing The Furies, takes on the irresolvability of the struggle between safety and liberty, and loyalty and defiance. In what amounts to her last words - told in a voice of unforgettable immediacy - Hobhouse finds that the quest for understanding can itself be a form of letting go.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Doubleday, c1993.
- ISBN:
- 1590170857
- OCLC:
- 56011888
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